Originally created as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 to showcase the newly refurbished Goethe-Institut Irland situated on one of Dublin’s grandest Georgian addresses, Merrion Square, Liz Roche Company gathers again a world class team of performers and collaborators to bring you this intimate and immersive site-specific dance piece.

★★★★ “… exquisitely choreographed… “Näher…closer, nearer, sooner” resonates most powerfully, transforming the Goethe-Institut into a living, breathing, resonant space full of hope and memory.” 
Chris O'Rourke, The Arts Review
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Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, D2
Feb 15th at 5pm & 8pm
Feb 16th at 2pm & 5pm
Feb 17th at 2pm
Tickets €15/€10
Booking: http://bit.ly/Naher_LRC
Tel.: +353 1 6801100
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Created by leading Irish choreographer Liz Roche the piece is written and co-devised by prolific Irish actor and playwright, Shane O'Reilly with sound design by Roy Carroll and costumes by Catherine Fay. An exceptional cast of dancers take audiences on a thrilling dance odyssey of emotion and movement in this latest ambitious work by Liz Roche Company who continue to forge new territory in dance and audience experience.
This not-to-be-missed dance encounter brings up all of the emotions and movements that bring us closer, encouraging us to share in an intimate living room play and to live the best moment of our lives.

★★★★ “Dancers appear out of nowhere, then vanish. Shadows flit behind walls… in a lithe interplay of vivid recollections, stream-of-consciousness retrospection and guttural reactions.” Christie Seaver, The Irish Times
Cast: Finola Cronin, Henry Montes, Anne-Laure Dogot, Kévin Coquelard & Senior Dancers from DYDC.
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Photography and videography by Luca Truffarelli

Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner | Liz Roche in conversation with Shane O'Reilly

Listen to Liz Roche and Shane O'Reilly talk about the influence of W.B. Yeats and 'Four Plays For Dancers' published in 1921. The four plays are 'At The Hawks' Well', 'The Only Jealousy Of Emer', 'The Dreaming Of The Bones' and 'Calvary'.
Yeats was highly influenced by symbolism and was experimenting with form, reacting against naturalistic theatre. He used the medium of dance to allow for experiences beyond reason and logic, almost mystical. 
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'Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner' was originally created as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 to showcase the newly refurbished Goethe-Institut Irland situated on one of Dublin’s grandest Georgian addresses, Merrion Square, Liz Roche Company gathers again a world class team of performers and collaborators to bring you this intimate and immersive site-specific dance piece.

★★★★ “… exquisitely choreographed… “Näher…closer, nearer, sooner” resonates most powerfully, transforming the Goethe-Institut into a living, breathing, resonant space full of hope and memory.” 
Chris O'Rourke, The Arts Review
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Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, D2
Feb 15th at 5pm & 8pm
Feb 16th at 2pm & 5pm
Feb 17th at 2pm
Tickets €15/€10
Booking: bit.ly/Naher_LRC
Tel.: +353 1 6801100
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Created by leading Irish choreographer Liz Roche the piece is written and co-devised by prolific Irish actor and playwright, Shane O'Reilly with sound design by Roy Carroll and costumes by Catherine Fay. An exceptional cast of dancers take audiences on a thrilling dance odyssey of emotion and movement in this latest ambitious work by Liz Roche Company who continue to forge new territory in dance and audience experience.
This not-to-be-missed dance encounter brings up all of the emotions and movements that bring us closer, encouraging us to share in an intimate living room play and to live the best moment of our lives.

★★★★ 
“Dancers appear out of nowhere, then vanish. Shadows flit behind walls… in a lithe interplay of vivid recollections, stream-of-consciousness retrospection and guttural reactions.” Christie Seaver, The Irish Times
Cast: Finola Cronin, Henry Montes, Anne-Laure Dogot, Kévin Coquelard & Senior Dancers from DYDC.
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Photography and videography by Luca Truffarelli
Graphic Design Bold&Brass

Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner | The influence of W.B Yeats | Liz Roche & Shane O'Reilly

What happens when a choreographer and a theatre artist come together to create a site-specific dance piece?
Listen to Liz Roche and Shane O'Reilly talk about the challenges they faced when collaborating on 'Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner'. 
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'Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner' was originally created as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 to showcase the newly refurbished Goethe-Institut Irland situated on one of Dublin’s grandest Georgian addresses, Merrion Square, Liz Roche Company gathers again a world class team of performers and collaborators to bring you this intimate and immersive site-specific dance piece.

★★★★ “… exquisitely choreographed… “Näher…closer, nearer, sooner” resonates most powerfully, transforming the Goethe-Institut into a living, breathing, resonant space full of hope and memory.” 
Chris O'Rourke, The Arts Review
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Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, D2
Feb 15th at 5pm & 8pm
Feb 16th at 2pm & 5pm
Feb 17th at 2pm
Tickets €15/€10
Booking: bit.ly/Naher_LRC
Tel.: +353 1 6801100
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Created by leading Irish choreographer Liz Roche the piece is written and co-devised by prolific Irish actor and playwright, Shane O'Reilly with sound design by Roy Carroll and costumes by Catherine Fay. An exceptional cast of dancers take audiences on a thrilling dance odyssey of emotion and movement in this latest ambitious work by Liz Roche Company who continue to forge new territory in dance and audience experience.
This not-to-be-missed dance encounter brings up all of the emotions and movements that bring us closer, encouraging us to share in an intimate living room play and to live the best moment of our lives.

★★★★ 
“Dancers appear out of nowhere, then vanish. Shadows flit behind walls… in a lithe interplay of vivid recollections, stream-of-consciousness retrospection and guttural reactions.” Christie Seaver, The Irish Times
Cast: Finola Cronin, Henry Montes, Anne-Laure Dogot, Kévin Coquelard & Senior Dancers from DYDC.
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Photography and videography by Luca Truffarelli
Graphic Design Bold&Brass

Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner | Collaboration between a choreographer & a theatre artist

Wonder why we chose the title ‘Näher… closer, nearer, sooner’? What does it means to be closer and nearer? Listen to Liz & @Shane talking about concepts such as familiarity and home and how many of these ideas are manifested in the costumes designed by Catherine Fay. 

'Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner' was originally created as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 to showcase the newly refurbished Goethe-Institut Irland situated on one of Dublin’s grandest Georgian addresses, Merrion Square, Liz Roche Company gathers again a world class team of performers and collaborators to bring you this intimate and immersive site-specific dance piece.

★★★★ “… exquisitely choreographed… “Näher…closer, nearer, sooner” resonates most powerfully, transforming the Goethe-Institut into a living, breathing, resonant space full of hope and memory.” 
Chris O'Rourke, The Arts Review
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Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, D2
Feb 15th at 5pm & 8pm
Feb 16th at 2pm & 5pm
Feb 17th at 2pm
Tickets €15/€10
Booking: bit.ly/Naher_LRC
Tel.: +353 1 6801100
______________________________

Created by leading Irish choreographer Liz Roche the piece is written and co-devised by prolific Irish actor and playwright, Shane O'Reilly with sound design by Roy Carroll and costumes by Catherine Fay. An exceptional cast of dancers take audiences on a thrilling dance odyssey of emotion and movement in this latest ambitious work by Liz Roche Company who continue to forge new territory in dance and audience experience.
This not-to-be-missed dance encounter brings up all of the emotions and movements that bring us closer, encouraging us to share in an intimate living room play and to live the best moment of our lives.

★★★★ 
“Dancers appear out of nowhere, then vanish. Shadows flit behind walls… in a lithe interplay of vivid recollections, stream-of-consciousness retrospection and guttural reactions.” Christie Seaver, The Irish Times
Cast: Finola Cronin, Henry Montes, Anne-Laure Dogot, Kévin Coquelard & Senior Dancers from DYDC.
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Photography and videography by Luca Truffarelli
Graphic Design Bold&Brass

Näher.... closer, nearer, sooner | What does it mean to be closer?

"Recording of myself performing Remembering... The Here Trio (My metronome) in my room.
This live registration represents the sounds and the musicality of the 32 second dance part I chose to work on."

Sarah Cerneaux

http://www.lizrochecompany.com/post/remembering-the-here-trio-ii-sarah-cerneaux
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The STILL/MOVING Blog is a place to share thoughts and ideas on what it means to be a dancing body that suddenly finds itself having to be still.
Sharing movement with audiences and each other is part of what makes us who we are, so these weeks and months ahead where so many rehearsals and performances have been cancelled are going to be a challenge.
We thought it might be a good moment to pause, reflect and, above all else, continue to share.
For that reason, we have invited 5 dancers who are currently working on different productions with the company to contribute to this creative blog over the confinement weeks: Sarah Cerneaux, Kévin Coquelard, Lucia Kickham, Glòria Ros Abellana and Ryan O'Neill.
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Liz Roche Company is Strategically Funded by the Arts Council Ireland and supported by Dublin City Council.

REMEMBERING THE SOUND | REMEMBERING THE HERE TRIO by Sarah Cerneaux | STILL/MOVING BLOG

In response to the lockdown, Creative Audiences, an exciting 3-month audience engagement programme from Liz Roche Company and Dublin Dance Festival, moved online. 
We have been able to offer our 40 participants a series of weekly practical creative tasks, talks and feedback sessions, with the overall programme offering a deeper insight into the art form of dance, with opportunities to discuss and to respond creatively to dance works by Liz Roche Company and a range of choreographies presented at Dublin Dance Festival. 
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Facilitated by Jenny Macdonald and Liz Roche with members of Liz Roche Company, this opportunity has given our participants insight into the company’s creative process on their recent work, The Here Trio, exploring key themes such as memory, empathy, what it is to be “here”, and relationships between politics and psychology on this island and beyond.

Photo: Josh Withers / Unsplash

Moving Into Nothing by Fionnuala Conway | Creative Audiences DDF 2020

Having put out an open call in February of this year, we gathered a group of 40 volunteer participants to take part in our Creative Audiences programme, a 3-month audience engagement project. In light of the Coronavirus lockdown we moved the programme online and are delighted to have been able to offer our participants a series of weekly practical creative tasks, talks and feedback sessions. The aim of the overall programme was to offer a deeper insight into the art form of dance, with opportunities to discuss and to respond creatively to dance works by Liz Roche Company and work presented at Dublin Dance Festival's Digital Capsule 2020.

Facilitated by Jenny Macdonald and Liz Roche with members of Liz Roche Company, this opportunity has given our participants insight into the company’s creative process on their recent work, The Here Trio. The work explores key themes such as memory, empathy, what it is to be “here”, and relationships between politics and psychology on this island and beyond.

In this recording, the dancers and choreographer of THE HERE TRIO talk to the participants about the creative process and the challenges they faced during the lockdown when they were commissioned to create blog entries for the STILL/MOVING Blog.

Find out more:
https://www.lizrochecompany.com/blog
https://www.lizrochecompany.com/the-here-trio
https://www.lizrochecompany.com/creative-audiences
https://www.lizrochecompany.com/creative-audiences-responses